Module 2: Initial Setup
2a: Choosing and Registering a Domain Name
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Choosing and Registering a Domain Name

This video explains how to choose an effective domain name for your site – balancing up the needs for personal/company branding with Search Engine Optimisation considerations.

It shows the relationship between domain names and website hosting, and goes through the practical steps needed to register a domain.

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Recommended Resources for Domain Registration
Usually best and cheapest to use a registrar in the country of the site you want to register.

For US sites I use GoDaddy.

For UK sites I use 123-reg.

Though in all honesty any decent registrar will do.

A useful tool when looking for available domains is Domize which checks availability and can also do “wildcard” searches for domains.: